“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam...
“The Cosmos extends, for all practical purposes, forever. After a brief sedentary hiatus, we are resuming our ancient nomadic way of life. Our remote descendants, safely arrayed on many worlds throughout the Solar System and beyond, will be unified by their common heritage, by their regard for their home planet, and by the knowledge that, whatever other life may be, the only humans in all the Universe come from Earth. They will gaze up and strain to find the blue dot in their skies. They will love it no less for its obscurity and fragility. They will marvel at how vulnerable the repository of all our potential once was, how perilous our infancy, how humble our beginnings, how many rivers we had to cross before we found our way.” ~Carl Sagan
“What have they done to the earth?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn
And tied her with fences and dragged her down”
~Jim Morrison
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BreatheInTheLight247
2012 symbolizes a door opening, not 'one' closing, Ashtar Massive.
Look around... Look Within... Humanity is the midst of...
Planetary Initiation
by Daniel Pinchbeck
Last week I was in New York City, my home, for Hurricane Sandy. At 7 pm that night, I walked to my corner and saw the floodwaters rising toward my block. I hurried home, grabbed a few things, and set out for a friend's house on higher ground. As I was hurrying away, I heard muffled explosions and saw eerie lights in the sky. It was the Con Edison plant blowing up.
Once-in-a-century super-storms and "Frankenstorms" are now annual events, regular occurrences, and quickly growing worse.
Sandy supports what I have been writing and saying for years about this time as one of intense transformation and planetary initiation. I wrote a book and made a film about the Mayan calendar and the year 2012. I believe that we are seeing the fulfillment of prophecy — based on the precise understanding of cosmic cycles held by the ancient cultures of MesoAmerica — in the transformation of planetary culture and consciousness. At the end of the process, we will either have transformed as a species and reached a new level of consciousness, or we will be on our way toward extinction. The choice is ours to make.
In tribal cultures, initiation is the necessary ordeal that turns adolescents into adults through accessing extrasensory perception, visionary states, and by transcending or subduing the ego. Through this process, the initiate becomes a full-fledged member of the tribe and takes responsibility for it.
As we undergo our planetary initiation, we are going to transcend individual ego and local boundaries to identify ourselves with humanity as a whole, becoming one global tribe. We are on the cusp of realizing ourselves as one species organism, in symbiotic relationship with the planetary ecology as a whole. Once we make this leap, we will share resources equitably, adopt cradle to cradle and no waste manufacturing practices, and shift from competition to cooperation as our basic paradigm. We will go from acting like a parasite or a virus on the earth to becoming the earth's immune system.
As Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman write in Spontaneous Evolution, "Science suggests the next step of human evolution will be marked by awareness that are all interdependent cells within the super-organism called humanity."
As an analogy, we can look at the process of the caterpillar becoming a butterfly. In the chrysalis, the caterpillar doesn't just sprout wings. Its entire body melts down into a biotic goop. The code for the transmutation of the organism is held by a handful of "imaginal cells" that start to propagate as the caterpillar dissolves. Although attacked at first by the dying caterpillar's immune system, the imaginal cells install the program that produces the butterfly. Our modern civilization is now in the process of melting down and decomposing, and we have to become the imaginal cells engaged in the process of its transmutation.
Climate change is clearly accelerating, as the vast preponderance of climate scientists warned us it would. Glaciologists found that "roughly half of the entire warming between the ice ages and the postglacial world took place in only a decade," with a temperature increase of 9 degrees during that time. Our continued tinkering runs the risk "of producing a runaway change — the climatic equivalent of a squawk on a sound system," writes Fred Pierce in With Speed and Violence.
In The Revenge of Gaia, James Lovelock predicts "an imminent shift of our climate towards one that could easily be described as Hell: so hot so deadly, that only a handful of the teeming billions now alive will survive." According to Lovelock, a maximum of 150 million people will be left alive at the end of this century.
Is this true? Do we have a say in what happens? Can we cooperate to co-create a rapidly different outcome?
In nature, we see the sudden emergence of radical new forms at higher levels of complexity during junctures of crisis. According to the principle of emergence, at a certain level of complexity, entirely new forms appear that could not be predicted by the nature of their parts. Can the same thing happen to our global civilization as a whole?
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Initiation is not just a marker or a rite of passage. It appears to have a biological purpose. It activates the higher function of the prefrontal cortex by forcing a "mutation of awareness" — a leap of consciousness. The prefrontal cortex is the most recent brain structure, emerging 40,000 years or so ago. It is the structure that allows us to become aware of awareness, to differentiate qualities, and to use symbols.
When the prefrontal cortex is functioning properly, it does other things as well:
Western civilization rejected or lost contact with initiatory practices and disciplines some time ago. We thus failed to create a system that induces higher functioning of the prefrontal cortex. What this means in practice is that the mass of people in modern society can't rise above their lower impulses and sexual compulsions, or their greed for material things. In fact, consumer society depends upon keeping people fixated in this state. We have made a world for "kidults," trapped by ego-based desires.
For a human community to endure, initiation is not optional.
The initiation process has a number of stages:
I believe that modern humanity is unconsciously bringing about a self-willed cataclysm to force its own transformation. How else do we explain how it is possible to ignore the overwhelming data on climate change, the risk posed by genetically modified organisms, or the obvious danger of nuclear plants, and so on? As an aside, if the Indian Point nuclear reactor was in the direct path of Hurricane Sandy, I wonder if we would have fared any better than Japan. I kind of doubt it.
If enough of us undergo a conscious process of initiation, our civilization may be spared the worst. When we make this inward mutation, we can then use our intelligence, skills, and resources to awaken the others and redirect society as a whole.
Individually, we can use tools like meditation, yoga, vision quests, ayahuasca shamanism, and so on. But these can quickly become new forms of spiritual materialism. We are being called upon to push beyond our comfort zones by sharing what we learn and by sacrificing our ego-based desires for the sake of the planetary community.
Consciousness is revealed, not in words, but in deeds. Seeking to overcome the inertia of modern civilization to bring about its transmutation is a powerful initiatory path for our time.
How can we make this rapid change? We need to apply a design science approach in all areas of life and look at our society from a whole systems approach. We can work both from within and outside of the system to bring about its transformation. Some crucial areas include:
1. Media
The primary function of media is not to convey information but to coordinate behavior. The mass media coordinates the behavior of the global multitude. When behavior is learned, it becomes habitual and subconscious.
Mass media, today, functions as as instrument of indoctrination. Media can be used as a tool to liberate rather than dominate the mass mind, and to rapidly alter our species' behavior patterns, instilling new habits that enhance resilience, community building, and sustainability.
2. Business
The corporation is an artificial life form. The development of the corporate form was a great evolutionary advance for humanity. We created an entity out of legal code, financial data, brand insignias, and ideas and injected it into an artificial game called the stock market. The corporation is the most powerful tool for transforming matter and energy that the human mind has created.
Unfortunately, we programmed it to behave destructively because we set its single-minded goal to maximize profit for shareholders — so that is what it does, monomaniacally. By its nature it must corrupt or evade costly environmental restrictions, and keep people in a state of insatiable desire craving the products it makes, whether plastic toys or anti-depressants.
We need to change the underlying program. We see efforts in this area, such as the B Corporation, which seeks to make companies environmentally and ethically responsible. But that won't be enough. We also need to change the financial system — the mechanism through which value is exchanged — to support sustainable behavior.
Immature ecosystems are characterized by competition, and mature ones are characterized by cooperation and symbiosis. As we realize our unity as one planetary super-organism, we can reprogram the corporation to be extremely beneficial instead of destructive. Corporations are like nascent organs in the collective body of humanity: an energy company is like the blood in the body, a media company is like the perceptual mechanisms of our collective organism. When we reprogram corporations to be consilient and to help us coexist with the biosphere, they will be a great tool for conscious evolution.
3. Economy
Ultimately, what is capital? Capital is a social agreement. The gigantic hyper-complex cathedral-like edifice of the financial system is designed to hide this simple fact.
The current financial system enforces competition and artificial scarcity through interest and debt. We need to disseminate new tools for exchanging value, complementary currencies, that create different beliefs and behavior patterns. For instance, the economist Bernard Lietaer proposes instituting a global trading currency with a negative interest so it loses value quickly. This would lead to sharing rather than hoarding of the resource when you have it. Local Credit Clearing Houses — consortiums of local manufacturers and service providers — can issue zero interest loans to local enterprises.
Tribal cultures were largely gift economies. Eventually we can return the gift to its centrality. We see this starting to happen on the Internet through websites like Couchsurfing.com.
4. Social Technology
Social networks are proto-political and have extraordinary implications for the future of society. We can design social networks to facilitate cooperation, resource sharing, group decision-making, and direct democracy. Clay Shirky writes, "Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society; they are a challenge to it." Networks for voluntary participation can replace functions of a centralized government, which will soon be incapacitated by the increase of natural disasters and economic issues in any case.
5. Art
The planetary emergency requires us to become conscious of what we are doing and to take responsibility for the fate of the earth. We will need to shift our belief systems and behavior patterns in order to serve the community of planetary life. Art has a new role in our changing world. Art can provide a model for recreating our society on humane, egalitarian, and regenerative principles. Art is an infinite game where there are no winners or losers. Your enjoyment of a painting or song doesn't take away from my enjoyment – if anything, it enhances it. A society based on creative expression is the opposite of a Zero Sum game.
Two thoughts from an Imaginal Cell-
"Civilization, in the very real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and true contentment." –Gandhi
In a state of Enlightened Anarchy, "each person will become his own ruler. He will conduct himself in a such a way that his behavior will not hamper the well being of his neighbors. In an ideal state there will be no political institutions and therefore no political power." –Gandhi
We face the inevitable collapse of our current civilization. Rather than a traumatic meltdown, we can intelligently redesign our current social systems to rapidly advance global civilization toward the ideal state of enlightened anarchy — the rule of all by all. We can instill a new ethos of participation, self-sufficiency, and cooperation in the global multitude. However our time to accomplish this goal is limited.
The first thing that we need to do is think about it.
http://realitysandwich.com/163833/planetary_initiation/
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NewWayDawning555
A Chat with Sacha Stone on the Mission, Framework and Future of the New Earth Nation: Part One
By Dan Miele, New Earth Press
Often times when presented with ideas that challenge the cultural, societal and economic memes, people will discard them thinking they are idealistic and impossible to achieve. But today we live in times of constant change. The human race is beginning to understand how the world works and is lifting the veil after many millennia of being bamboozled by the power players of civilization.
Enter the New Earth Nation: a movement dedicated to expanding and progressing human sovereignty and consciousness. The notion was conceived almost fifteen years ago but has recently garnered a commanding presence, with almost a quarter of a million members on its Facebook page alone. Clearly its message resonates with many awakened individuals around the planet.
I recently sat down on a call with New Earth Nation founder Sacha Stone to get a better understanding of the organization’s true purpose, how it relates to people, some of the issues surrounding its formation, and where it’s headed in the future.
Transcript:
DAN MIELE, New Earth Press: First off, nice to talk with you. What I think some people want to know is, who is Sacha Stone and how did he find himself where he is today?
SACHA STONE: I don’t want to sound sanctimonious, but I’m not so sure that I’m keen to go into my own story that much; not for any reason other than I’m really bored to death with my story. I’m just a living man and like all of us, have had a realization and that realization has actuated into more of a sense of being than a sense of doing. And that sense of being is the wellspring of the new metric which we are now evolving, which demands our dignity, our sovereignty, and our creative expression as the prime mover of our reality field. No longer are we to be harvested energetically, intellectually, spiritually, socially, civilizationally into the old orders of priesthoods, bankers, and sociopaths who have littered our history.
So really all I am is a living man who speaks to that stuff in the now. And that is why I am not particularly interested in my story, because my story, like most stories, is largely a lie, it’s largely a deception, whether I know it or not. I think that what I’m getting at is that a true zero-point social ecology and a true zero-point economy and a zero-point in our consciousness demands that we release ideas of the past.
DM: At what point did you realize the world needed that social, environmental and economic reboot as you were just describing?
SS: It was the point of inception when the sperm hit the egg, frankly. Because if we are truly attuned to the soul journey, and I’m only concerned about my soul journey because that’s the lens I wear; if I wear that lens in pure truth it becomes the story of the human family. I need look no further than my own heart and my own path; which is, incidentally, the alphabet of selfhood, as opposed to the egoic alphabet. There’s a huge distinction there.
But if we do look to our own story, through the lens of pure truth we find that we journey back in time to a state where we were arguably two or three years of age, one year of age. When we first banged our head against a table leg or were violated by another human being, harmed in any way; that could be a sharp slap, it could be anything. And the moment that we first engaged with the other, in a negative or intrusive sense, when we were first violated by a sense of the other. It could have been banging our head into a wall or an altercation with an adult or even another child. But the point is, once we suffered the indignity of intrusion against self that violated us into a trajectory of antipathy where we began to separate ourselves from the other and began to enmitize the world to a great extent and see that the world hurts, people hurt, relationships hurt, circumstances hurt. Then we began to build walls psychologically around ourselves and protect ourselves and defend ourselves and the rest, as they say, is history.
But I really want to address that point at which that violation occurred and move before that moment. We were in a typhonic state of consciousness. You then move back to the surgeon’s knife cutting the umbilical cord, and that being the very first violation. It’s a patriarchal separation; it’s an imposition and it’s an indignity, this is not natural. And then prior to that, of course, we were in the fluid of the mother’s womb. In that space were connected to the heart and mind of Gaia. We were only feeling at the fractal level, feeling the energetics of inner Earth as they speak through our mother’s kundalini. We were receiving the codes, the undiluted codes, from the solar and galactic principle actuating within the Earth and we were in that typhonic state of bliss, the Eden. So that, for me, is really the narrative we need to look at and recognize that we have it in us. We are fundamentally connected to source consciousness. We carry the codes, we carry the transduction technology within our bio-organism to be able to constantly receive those codes of the vibral mind even as we move into life.
But again, we need to address the first intrusion, the first principle of violation which occurred against us. Whether it was being beaten up in the playground or being slapped by the surgeon or having the symbiotic flesh cut by the surgeon’s knife. We need to psychologically address this. And then go right back to the actual inception in the womb, as well, where there was as egg and the sperm invaded the egg and actually breached the membrane. That was a violent act, be clear about this. Duality, the dualistic principle, the dance of Shiva and Shakti, all of this stuff is writ large under the microscope with the sperm and the egg.
So again, my story is our story, it’s the story of separation and wanting to address it, really look to it and understand it dynamically at the most subtle levels. Then in that space, realizing that the duality premise is hardwired into everything in this field of expression and yet, we have the right and we have the soul orientation to be able to transcend the dualistic principle at any stage in the journey. That is what the sacred now is all about and that is what the New Earth Nation, as a living principle, addresses. And we can look at it from an ecological perspective, an economic perspective, a sociological perspective, a philosophical perspective, a spiritual dimension and it all speaks to the same thing. Be present and fully attentive in the now. Let the entire universal mind and the vibral mind of creation inform this moment in time-space. And in this space, let me become one with creator and let me then fulfill my highest potential, my noble expression. Then we become the creators of our world, the New Earth. We build beautiful spaces, we engender beautiful dimensions and perspectives and that old history, that old serpent paradigm falls away like the old skin that it ever was.
DM: How would you describe the New Earth Nation to someone who might not be able to see in these terms, someone who might not be sure what its purpose is? The way you just described it there, is that how you would describe it to someone on the street?
SS: I wouldn’t describe it to someone on the street because we’re not in the business of proselytizing or prognosticating to anything or anyone in this veil of tears. So the short answer is it would depend entirely on how the question was fashioned, and the answer would be forthcoming. Because every animal is different, and if I am speaking to a Midwest Christian Baptist I’m going to be speaking with a certain tone and a certain lexicon. If I am speaking to a 23 year-old rabid activist I am going to be speaking a different language. But the language is the same language, be sure.
DM: It’s just whether or not the person receiving that language has the capacity to take it in and do something with it, right?
SS: Yes and it’s simple stuff, it’s simple mathematic. Does one understand or comprehend that sovereignty is the same as consciousness and that consciousness is the same as sovereignty? Does one comprehend that one cannot be sovereign without being conscious and one cannot be conscious without being sovereign? Does one understand that time, money, and fear are the same equation? And can one see that they are absolutely the same value, the same thing, or not? If one cannot see that time, money and fear are the same thing, then one is not equal to the conversation of sovereignty or of consciousness.
So again, the like attracts like in this sense. One can only put out the right signals, which is what we’re endeavoring to do with the New Earth Nation, in the hope that those signals act as a beacon to others through the laws of resonance. But it’s not about proselytizing, so I wouldn’t speak on the street.
DM: Okay. I can already see happening what you’re saying. The people who are able to take in that language and understand the message are all coming together. I suppose this also leads to the same sort of response to people who say “Oh this isn’t going to work”. Well if they say it’s not going to work, they’re not understanding the language. Right?
SS: Yes, it’s hardly worth engaging with that attitude because it’s an intellectually dead attitude. It has no life to it. Why would one engage with it if it is dead?
DM: Now as you were saying in terms of time, money, and fear…once we’ve done away with those things, how will people in New Earth communities, retreats or any other New Earth location be spending their time on a daily basis when they have all this time to spend?
SS: Simply put, we engage with creative expression. Because when you are not being driven by time, being owned by money, and being motivated through fear then one naturally sits upon the grass, so to speak, and engages with creative enterprise. So we begin to build the most beautiful world that each of us can conceive of, starting with our adobe hut. We start to remember our soul purpose. We reengage with the earth, and once we’ve connected with our creative expression and that is caked in, we begin to be freed up to imagine and then build out the world we wish to see. At that point
we really start to activate the higher consciousness aspect of being and of course the immortal DNA.
And I can hear the jaded skeptics howling with laughter at such a ludicrous notion, but of course what have they ever known? The jaded skeptics in our midst have never known anything to themselves, they have never offered up to the world a single creative construct. So we should not concern ourselves with the hearts and minds and the voices of the jaded skeptics in our midst. The reactuation of immortal DNA, the edenic principle… Eden from whence we were not cast out. That is a biblical, apocryphal lie. We left the edenic privilege. There was no fall; we took a backward dive into oblivion in order to be remembered to ourselves one fine day. And at that point of remembering ourselves we act as the absolution principle for the lower realms of expression.
Living sons and daughters of God is what we are, every last one of us. And there was no such thing as being cast out of paradise; there was no such thing as the great fall. We volunteered at the soul level to take a dive into this far-flung quadrant of the multiverse, knowing that it would take a long passage of time for us to remember ourselves to ourselves. But when we did, and we are right now at that Rubicon where we are remembering our immortality, remembering our divinity, and in so doing and so being we are becoming the living bodhisattva. We become the anchor point of the lower realms
expression toward the celestial world. What on Earth else is this about? Why on Earth would we volunteer at the soul level to come into a world like this, if it were not to drag it out of the depths of misery and anchor it into the celestial template? That is what our noble expression determines and dictates. And those of us who are participating in this beautiful dance, for instance with the New Earth Nation, we are remembering ourselves to ourselves in that doing.
DM: Do you think that’s why there have been so many people who have come forward to the New Earth Nation, because it is this visceral feeling, you can feel it, it feels right, and so you go forward with that?
SS: Yes, it’s the quantum phenomenon. Again, an actuating human heart engages in the vertical and disengages from the lateral plane of time-space. It begins to engage in the vertical, the transcendent, the ascentionist paradigm. In that space it’s like a parascope, we are still living flesh and living according to the time-space illusion. But where we are placing ourselves, our true witness is occurring in more of a vertical sense and we are seeing further afield in that vertical transcendent witness standpoint. We are able to connect to one another vibrally through the quantum field at that level. Our psionic or intuitive intelligence kicks in, this is the gut, and we begin to know what we know, what we know. And we come together as the true family.
But it’s not the articulation of words and doctrines that are bringing us together. Words and doctrines were used by priesthoods; by arcane logic being dictated to us by cloisters of men hiding behind veils, trying to determine the shape of destiny. Effectively what they were doing was harvesting humanity in that process.
*read part 2 & 3 of interview at: http://jdresonation.com/category/biography-biography/
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“Powerful winds that crack the boughs of November! - and the bright calm sun, untouched by the furies of the earth, abandoning the earth to darkness, and wild forlornness, and night, as men shiver in their coats and hurry home. And then the lights of home glowing in those desolate deeps. There are the stars, though! - high and sparkling in a spiritual firmament. We will walk in the windsweeps, gloating in the envelopment of ourselves, seeking the sudden grinning intelligence of humanity below these abysmal beauties. Now the roaring midnight fury and the creaking of our hinges and windows, now the winder, now the understanding of the earth and our being on it: this drama of enigmas and double-depths and sorrows and grave joys, these human things in the elemental vastness of the windblown world.” ~Jack Kerouac